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...showed a 30 percent decrease in restaurant revenue after the implementation of a total smoking ban in Beverly Hills, California. This survey, howeve r, was commissioned by a public relations company working for Phillip Morris and was based on a survey that was not scientifically rigorous. Studies of the actual sales tax data showed that the smoking ban in Beverley Hills had no effect on restaurant sal es. A recent analysis in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice found that, using the sales tax data from 81 localities, laws restricting smoking in restaurants had no effect on revenues...
When it comes to military interventions - whether in Kosovo, Afghanistan or Iraq - the United States and its allies in the European Union have arrived at an effective if somewhat lopsided division of labor: the U.S. does most of the actual fighting (preferably from the air) and the E.U. keeps the peace. Or, to put it in less flattering terms, the Americans make the dinner, and the Europeans do the dishes. But with the Bush Administration serving up the prospect of a fresh invasion of Iraq, Europeans are increasingly alarmed at the size of the mess they might be asked...
...didn't sing or play an instrument; he often left session supervision to his assistant Jack Clement, an actual musician and songwriter. But Phillips did have an ear. He could hear the brilliance in a raw musician. (Sam liked raw; it was what made him rock's first impresario.) He could also hear what wasn't there but could be: what a performer might accomplish if given full freedom in the studio...
...personal video recorders (PVRs) currently invading the market. Essentially a glorified VCR, it allows users to digitally record television shows of their choice without having to deal with a tape. By digitalizing the process, viewers now possess the ability to pause shows during their actual air time, record an entire season of “Law and Order” with a single click, and zip through boring acceptance speeches and overly familiar opening sequences (after all, one can only watch Sarah Jessica Parker’s little pink tutu get splattered by mud so many times). Far superior...
...usual slew of nominations were theoretically up for grabs. And while you'll be hearing a lot about the new blood at the Emmys - I'll get to that in a minute - the Emmys clearly set itself up to make plenty of conservative choices when it hands out the actual hardware in September. The more catholic nominations aside, "The West Wing" will probably be adding another wing onto its trophy case, and the academy, which likes to reward commercial success, will be handing "Friends" the 2002 statuette for Best-Post-9/11 Ratings Bounce...